Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2019
Cybersecurity expert Marco Ramilli shared another tool of his arsenal that extracts suspicious IPs from undesired connections, his HoneyPots. Hi folks, today I’d like to point you out another tool of mine which extracts suspicious IPs from undesired connections. In other words: HoneyPots. I run a personal HoneyPot network which stands from years and over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2019
Experts at Trend Micro have detected a new strain of MacOS malware that hides inside a Windows executable to avoid detection. Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new strain of MacOS malware disguises itself as a Windows executable file to evade detection. The malware is carried via .EXE file that will not execute […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2019
Security experts at Myki have recently discovered a new phishing campaign that could deceive even most tech-savvy users. The technique relies upon the concept of being able to reproduce a social login prompt in a very realistic format inside an HTML block. Crooks are distributing links to blogs and services that display users “login using […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Adiantum will bring encryption on Android devices without […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2019
Russia plans to disconnect the country from the internet as part of an experiment aimed at testing the response to cyber attacks that should isolate it. Russia plans to disconnect the country from the Internet for a limited period of time to conduct a test aimed at assessing the security of its infrastructure. Russian citizens […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2019
A new batch of 127 million records appears in the dark web, this time the huge trove of data appears to be originated from eight companies. A hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘gnosticplayers‘ is offering for sale the data on the Dream Market marketplace asking $14,500 worth of Bitcoin. Early this week, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2019
Moscow police department operatives, with the participation of Group-IB experts, took down a group of phone scammers who for several years have been extorting money from the elderly. Phone scammers typically managed to steal between 450 and 4500 USD per victim, promising substantial compensation for their purchases of medicines, medical devices or dietary supplements. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2019
The week closes with the news of another embarrassing data breach, the Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed a hack on Valentine’s Day. The dating app Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed that hackers breached its systems on Valentine’s Day and may have obtained access to users’ account data. The company notified the incident to account holders, the intrusion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2019
Germany announced it is going to make its cyber capabilities available for the NATO alliance to help fight hacking and electronic warfare. Germany is going to share its cyber warfare capabilities with the NATO alliance to protect members of the alliance against hacking and electronic warfare. During the 2016 Warsaw Summit, NATO officially recognised cyberspace […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2019
SAP released a collection of security fixes for February 2019 that address 13 vulnerabilities in its products, including a Hot News flaw in SAP HANA XSA. This week SAP addressed 13 vulnerabilities in its products with the released of the February 2019 set of security fixes, including a Hot News flaw in SAP HANA Extended […]
